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"In the meantime, let's go back to the room just now because Will is waiting. Good?"
"Yes."
I nod at Al's words and head to the room where I'm keeping Prince Wilfred waiting.
Prince Wilfred waited in the room with Noel for a long time. Sitting sluggishly on a solo couch, he waves at us when he returns.
"Oh, at that rate, you're safe, it looks like you got a spiritual contract. Good luck."
"Will, sit down properly. Exactly. That's bullshit."
"Er... I've been waiting for my brother for a long time, so that's fine."
"Here it was, but the centenary! Big Bad Noel!! Be prepared!! '
"What!?"
Suddenly, Noir shouted loudly. At the same time throw something like a black mass of magic at Noel. It hit Noel brilliantly and covered up his appearance. A dazzling light spreads throughout the room. I screamed.
"Noel!!"
"- Uh... it hurt ah... Hey, all of a sudden it's a terrible attack."
A voice I had never heard sounded.
The voice of an elevated man. Freed from the glare, when he looked in the direction in which his voice spoke, there stood a man who seemed to be an adult man.
White and black spotted hair is bouncing all over the place, up to the waist. He was wearing a robe long enough to get to the ground. Its face was horribly neat, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was exactly an extinct beauty. A more neutral face than Al, which can be described as both male and female. And those ears were long and pointed.
"Elf......?
"Yes there! I hope you don't make that mistake. I'm a high elf."
He listens to my whining and fixes it with a well-shaped frown. He was holding a long wooden wand in his hand.
I don't understand the situation at all, and I can only stand by the occasion. In the meantime, I heard a tongue pounding.
"Did you miss the paperwork? It's the same crumb that manifests itself in my magic. Good, again....... die!! '
"Oops."
Noir strikes again. The man gently ruled it out. It's a strange story, and after a man gets rid of it, the attack disappears as if it were absorbed on the floor.
It helps that the room is magically unbreakable, but I wonder what this is all about right now.
"Lili......! Are you okay?"
Watching the noir and the man's one-sided defensive battle in disdain, Al came here in disdain of the attack.
"Yes...... I'm fine...... what's that? Where's my Noel?
I somehow figured it out, but I still couldn't help but ask. Seeing Al as if he were cursing. He said with a bitter face.
"... as Will said, I wonder what. I'm definitely Noel the Great Wizard. Because Noel is the only one with that distinctive hair color high elf. I know you don't want to admit it, but I think that's what that Noel you had was about that Noel."
I thought not, but still, I was shocked to be made clear.
Who would think that my pretty cat Noel is the great wizard of legends? But the sight in front of me only supported it.
"Ha! It would be a big mistake if you thought you could tail me with something like that."
"Feud of my fellow countrymen! Just to kill you, I came out here as a covenant spirit! Die! Noel!! '
"I can't believe it's an enemy. Did I do something wrong?
"I will not forget that I used and killed more than a hundred of my countrymen for magical experimental material. Some of the spirits you used to experiment with were my best friends!
"Yeah? 'Cause I needed it to purify magic drugs. I don't know. Suppose there was a lizard, for example, in the magic medicine ingredients. Where you used it, no one would get mad, would they? It's just like that. I used the Spirit because I needed it. That's all."
"Are you saying that the lives of my compatriots and best friends are the same as those of lizards!?"
"For me. Any creature is just an experimental material to me."
"Again, you die!!"
"... I knew the Great Wizard Noel was a bad piece of feminine crumb, but I can't believe he even bought a grudge against the Spirit. Is this what Will said, too?"
Listening to the exchange between Noir and the Great Wizard Noel, Al said as he deduced. I stare sharply at the fierce noir attack and the hilarious noise of it, just nodding.
Prince Wilfred said the Great Wizard Noel bought the wrath of the Spirit King. That's why he said he was cursed to look like a cat.
I thought it was a terrible joke then, but watching how they are now makes it seem like you can't easily deny it.
Noir told Noel as he attacked again.
"There are powerful signs you can only avoid! Is that wand just a decoration?!? '
"Me too, I'd love to if I could...... wow!
Noel puts up a cane and turns it with a circle. The moment I thought a swirl of magic had occurred, there was a dumb sound of "pounding".
"... ah"
"Nah..."
Noel the Great Wizard disappeared, and instead, on the spot, Noel the Cat was squatting.
Noel gave me that look after all, and said, "I thought this was going to happen. I still don't have enough magic," he said unfortunately.
"... Shit, did you talk?
Hear the human words spinning from Noel's mouth and open your eyes. Staring at Noel in an incredible way, Noel looked mucky.
"Well, you'll talk. I'm not a real cat. I didn't have enough magic before, so I just didn't talk. Just now, the stupid spirits there gave me plenty of magic. When I sucked it all away, I wondered if it had recovered a little. But it looks like it's gonna be hard to keep it the way it was. I tried to use magic and I went back."
"Who do you think is a stupid spirit? You still fool me when you look that ugly!
"Noir, noir. Please, calm down..."
An angry noir tries to attack Noel again. I noticed that and stopped in a hurry.
I can't talk about it at all as it is. Because that's what I found out.
But Noir seemed dissatisfied. They complain about what stopped the attack.
"... Lord. Noel is my enemy. Calm down, I say more and more impossible. '
Al made a sharp point about the lazy noir.
"Even if you attack, I don't think Noel will be able to inflict any pain just by sucking on that magic. So for now, I guess we should just stop the attack and find a concrete way to stop it."
Noir thought a little and nodded.
"It makes sense. Let's hire that operation. '
"Uh, well, I was wondering if you'd stop attacking."
'There's no point in an attack that doesn't work. Understood. "
"Good..."
I heard Noir's answer and was horrified. I turn my eyes to Al and thank him.
"Thank you, Al. Stop the noir."
"You couldn't keep the conversation busy like that.... So, Will! How long have you been hiding!
"Huh!?"
Reacting to Al's voice, Prince Wilfred crawled out of the shadow of the couch. Apparently, he was hiding so he wouldn't get caught up in Noel and Noir's mess.
"... 'cause I'm scared. I'm sorry I got caught up in a fight between people..."
"I know how you feel, but I need to hear a little more about you. Look, I was wondering if you could get back on the couch."
"... if you don't like it, you won't listen to me. Damn, I usually come through when I talk about games, all this time."
"Did I say something?
"Nandemo Alimasen, Brother"
Prince Wilfred, smiled at Al, saluted him in an upright immovable position. Apparently he was very scared. Seeing him reluctantly re-sit on the couch, we take our seats, too. I worried about what to do with Noel, but Noel took the liberty of riding on my lap. Al ruthlessly pays for it.
"I was wondering if you wouldn't take it personally on my fiancée's lap."
"Hmm, my heart is narrow I'm your husband's cute cat, so I need you to treat me more dearly"
It's obvious, I guess, but I can't get used to the current situation where Noel speaks people's language. With a complicated face, watching Noel speaking to Al, Al placed Noel next to himself and exhaled.
"I'll be stunned at the nerves that can still say that, even if I'm not who I am."
"You say terrible things about catching such a delicate man. Isn't that true? I'm a pretty bred cat from Goshzinsama. I feel like I owe you for picking it up. He was dead."
"That's it. I want you to tell me more about that story. Will, you said Noel bought the wrath of the Spirit King, didn't you?
Prince Wilfred nodded when he was told the story.
"Oh, yeah. I should have talked about using it as an experimental material for magic drugs or as a source of magic to develop new magic pretty fucked up. So, that's just too much, and I was turned into a scrupulous cat that no one would look up to by the Spirit King. Killing them all at once is raw. Suffer and suffer, and die, I wonder if that was true."
Prince Wilfred speaking to remind me of something. I saw him like that and said it like Noir was impressed.
'You knew the story well. On the matter, it is contraindicated in the Spirit. I thought nobody was talking, but where did you hear that from?
"Come on... I wonder where it was"
Yabe, and Prince Wilfred mislead as he hastened.
As I watched Prince Wilfred, I really thought, again, that not all of what he called 'game stories' were lies.
Of course, there are a lot of strange things about it, but apart from that, there are things that can be helpful.
- Game, huh?
I didn't believe it.
You can't believe this world is a game, no matter what they say.
But it's true that Prince Wilfred has information about something we don't know, and we shouldn't turn away about it.
Noir moved between me and Al, and Prince Wilfred, and he saw us.